The Seaforth News, 1960-12-22, Page 6I'rain Your Kids
tut Gun Safety
There's no danger in a gun,"
raid lees. Morrow, hunting editor'
srf "Rod and Gun and one of the
promoters of Dominion Marks-
tnen. "The clanger lies in the titan
behind the gun ---- and he may be
your son."
Les has three sons, Wayne, 13;
David, 10; and jantie, 2; and he
is convinced of the value of early
training in handling guns He
feels that it helps children over -
=tome the twin evils of ignor-
ance and fear and also gives
then' confidence and a sense of
security as they grow up. Moth-
ers could do a lot to help their
children gain knowledge of the
tight way tel treat firearms.
"Even before a child is old
enough to learn how to fire a gun
he should be instilled with a
healthy respect for it. Just as he
is told to keep away from the
stwitches on the electric stove or
the blade of a knife so he should
be taught not to point his toy
gun at people. In his genies he
can bang -bang at the garden
fenee and still have lots of fun
pretending he's shooting Indians.
"When a child is four years old
tae may be shown how to hold an
einem, If you want to impress
him with the fact that it could
hurt someone shoot a pellet into
the side of an orange crate and
AO him see the gash it makes."
One of the main needs of a
child according to psychologists
le a sense of security. "And I
hink • shooting can help here."
said Les, "Parents should en-
. ourage children to take part in
sports and learn to do something
, eally well. In my work with
*ports clubs in various parts of
,,he city I've seen some amazing
Khanges in boys' attitudes when
they've joined an organization
where some adult is interested
enough to coach them in hockey
er football.
"Shooting is an activity in
which a boy can reach this sense
of achievement, and, contrary to
popular notions, is one that al-
most any boy can enjoy safely.
He doesn't have to have 50-50
vision or the eagle eye et Buf-
falo Bill.
"Coordination between eye and
hand is something that can be
improved by practice. Even chil-
dren with physical defects —
polio or a heart condition — can
1enrn to excell at shooting."
Les feels that the nervous
mother who refuses to have a
gun in the house is Only creating
a dangerous situation. "After all,
it's not logien'. Boys learn to con-
trol those dangerous pieces of
mechanism — motor cars — and
they should also learn hove to
e•ontrel a gun."
••A hey who is either ignorant
or afraid of guns is a potential
danger, Since about one in three
people in Canada handle guns
the chances are that a boy will
take an interest in thein. So
what do you do? Forget that
guns exist? And then run -the
risk of your son picking one up
and nervously point it in the
wrong direction. He only needs
to make a mistake once."
1T GLITTERS Michael Dmyt-
renko stacks gold born in a
vault of the Federal Reserve
Bank in New York City, 80 feet
below the pavement. This gold
worth $216,065,711 -- he-
longs to 72 foreign govern-
ments. To this vault conies vir-
tually all of the told that is
"flowing abroad" to meet the
country's rising balonce•of-
payments deficit. Dmytrenko
wears steel shoe guards to pro-
tect his feet if o lar folk,
j.0 t i; el -- lotto
About 10 is a good age for a
boy to start formal ars traction.
"Shooting clubs throughout the
country are doing a great job,"
said Les. "And they're the an -
ewer for the boy whose parents
know little about shooting.
"What I've said applies to girls
too. In fact, girls aro good shoot -
ere once they overcome their ini-
tial distrust of firearms How-
ever, they're not so interested in
hunting trips.
"My eldest boy, Wayne, comes
on trips with me, and is as- reli-
able as • any adult. I know that
I can trust hien to use his head —
I and not a trigger-happy finger."
Still Digging
For Rainbow Gold
Two Rumanian peasants, an
elderly man and his younger
wife, were feverishly digging
the ground at the foot of a spe-
cially vivid rainbow recently.
When a curious passer-by ask-
ed them what they were doing,
the man said: "We're digging
for gold."
The couple found no gold.
They were two of the dwindling
number of European peasants
in various countries who still be-
lieve the age-old legend that
there is always a pot of gold
or some other kind of treasure
to be found where it rainbow
ends,
In Silesia country folk believe
that angels put the rainbow gold
there and that only a nude man
can obtain the prize.
Perhaps it's only natural that
rainbows -• . the phenonema we
see in the part of the sky oppo-
site the sun after rain — are
the subject of colourful beliefs,
There are seven colours in
each bow — violet, indigo, blue,
green, yellow, orange and red
— but they so overlap that we
rarely distinguish more than
four or five. What isn't gener-
ally known is that the space
occupied by each colour depends
upon the size of the raindre,ns
in the bow.
At one time children in parts
of northern California were
warned by their superstitious I!
parents not to count the colours
in a rainbow or to point at it.
Why? Because a child's finger
would become permanently
crooked or even drop off,
Equally stupid were the be-
liefs that dreaming of a ram- '
bow meant evil for the dreamer
and that the man who ran
through a rainbow would be-
come a good doctor.
Yet a Yorkshire couple vow
that a rainbow brought them
happiness which continues to
this day.
"We were driving along a
country road during is sudden
shower on an otherwise lovely
clay when we saw a gorgeous
rainbow just ahead of our car."
they say,
"Within seconds we were pass-
ing right through the rainbow,
with the colours suffusing our
faces and giving the interior of
the car an unearthly glow.
"As it was the very first day
of our honeymoon, we took this
as a sign of good luck and so it
has proved, We've never had a
serious quarrel throughout cur
married life, thirty-eight years."
Country dewllers along the
Sussex Downs declare that ram -
bows observed there are the
finest in Britain. They are at
their best because the wide ex-
panse of sky gives the oppor-
tunity of seeing many double
rainbows,
In 1924 Britain had a summer
of rainbows. Day after day of
sun and shower was marveIlous-
ly illuminated by rainbows I
which where unusually vivid
because of the size of the rain -
crept.
Food Delivery
By Eagles!
U1ter's rarest babe has a sharp
beak. a body covered with white
fltlft anti taloned feel. This gold-
en et.g1'e was born high up on x
massive cliff tate. on the Antrim
coast.
A focuii„,ht after as
party of naturalists. With ropes
and mountaineering seas, tier out
to elimb t( Its 11(011;_ photri rapb
the new arrival, t,rd its a British
tltlreurn identity tan 10 its lee.
Fortunately, the parent: t,irrr,
though much agitated by this 111-
1 uifon, did not attntic ellen Alar
john>o11 of Coleraine slipped'hi:
tine over the baby's left lee.
l'his event has delighted Nor •
-
rhern Ireland tl birch 'ovine. who
hop, that ,silden eagl.s will once
freely ruaiV,, through Ae-
i tliul'F. wild 1..Irnr
i%. elcr tend their roust; tt rs
lavishly, a feet of which a wily
(.il 11'il'I WCn. Antrim termer
seek advantages _ WheliQVt•.
r•aplr Fleeted' fu hist oeip;hl'vrur'-
hood, he seized one 01 its seeing -
stns.,. and tethered it h rirtr• his
homestead.
As he hoped, 01, older hird5
dripped abundant supplies to it.
So not only was the captive bird
;rtiefitd, but the farmer (Ind his
family got, all the rabbits :+nil
[lure: they ,, d, drL.,rrd
fit e.
LADIES WEAR THE PANTS — Punts stride into rhe Rome fashion
world with these efforts by Battilocchi. Puffy black organza,
left, and dropped -waistline of fuchsia brocade, right, arein-
spired by harlem pants.
;FABLE T& 1 S
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A few banana recipes might
not be out of order. It's one fruit
available, in most places, the year
'round; and although the teen-
agers will probably doubt this,
it can be used in ways that the
soda , fountain maestro never
dreamed of.
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BANANA. CHOCOLATE
PUDDING
1 package chocolate pudding -
mix
2 cups milk
30 vanilla wafers
3 medium bananas, sliced
% cup heavy cream, whipped
1 tablespoon sugar
ta teaspoon pure vanilla extract
Combine pudding mix and milk
in a saucepan. Stir and cook over
medium heat until mixture comes
to s full boil. Remove from heat.
Pour into a bowl. (PIace waxed
paper directly on surface of hot
pudding to prevent a surface
film,) Chill. Line the bottom of
a 1 -quart casserole with a layer
of vanilla wafers. Top with sliced
bananas. Cover with a layer of
chocolate pudding. Repeat until
all ingredients are used, having
pudding as top layer. Chill un-
til ready to serve. Just before
serving, sweeten whipped cream
with sugar and add vanilla, and
spread on the top. 6 to 8 serv-
ings.
RAKED BANANAS
6 firm ripe, not too soft,
bananas
2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
!:1 teaspoon salt
p:1. teaspoon ground nutmeg
1i teaspoon ground cinnamon
eup honey
'2 cup maple syrup
1 tablespoon butter
6 thin slices lemon or lime
Whipped cream, optional
Peel and split bananas in half
,Brush with lemon juice. Place
in buttered baking dish. Mix
salt, spices. honey and maple
syrup and pour over all. Dot
with butter. Top each banana
with Jennie or line slice. Bake
in a preheated moderate oven
(350 deg. F.1 20 to 25 minutes.
Baste bananas with spiced syrup
during to king period. Serve ae
dessert with whipped cream el
Servs- plain. -6 servingis.
BANANA GRIDDLE (TAKES
It's
cups sifted pastry flour
teaspoon salt
teaspoon ground 't'ac't
pepper
teaspoons double-acting
baking powder
1 tablespoon sugar
'. eggs., separated
11 i cups milk
tablepsoons shorteninr5.
melted
I cup 111_ median,1 thinly
sliest' bananas
•
Silt first ,,3 ingredients edi )1i .,...,
Ther, Thoroughly ennlbinc. =i
yolks, mitt and Thera nrll,' Add
to •'lour mixture Airline only
cnouyll to dampen flour.- Sur it
hal afar.. ile 11 t t whit Until
stili and told into fur 10ixtt)
Cook 00 , hut, Iilrht1F ,•r- -1-rt
griddle allowing le cup tent(
for tush pancake. Turn to orowr,
other side when bubbles forgo Mi
the surface. Serve .bot with but-
ler and honey or lymph srttp
with saneage or brim. 'Makes IT
do3en ."..riddle (•tilde_
in p1 ,1 peri rat tom porn 31rci-
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dish. 11 hats Melly 1,:wis 11 u1.; ;1,111
17/110 cathed cern :;palir3, ,•,e0
(mete rd, enol r•e,,.erol,' Ind
cot,lltlies other names.
Gertrude P. Lancaster of the
Christian Science Monitor has
been doing some research on the
subject and here is her report.
"I believe that the following
will give you a fair approxima-
tion of the earliest forms of corn
pudding: Make a cream sauce of
2 tablespoons of butter and 2 of
flour plus 11/2 cups milk. Salt
and pepper to taste (about 1
teaspoon salt and '.h pepper, I'd
estimate). Add 3 eggs beaten
well and 2 cups of cooked corn,
fresh, frozen, or canned, Blend
thoroughly, pour into a well -
greased baking dish and bake lite
hours at 375° F, or until the top
is light brown and it looks firm.
In ease you're in any doubt,
corn pudding is generally served
as a vegetable, but it can be used
with other foods as a supper dish.
There's another version which
has been created in more recent
times, for it uses canned cream -
style corn. In this one the cream
sauce is made of lee cup butter,
3 tablespoons flour, and 2 cups
milk. The eggs are separated,
and the beaten yolks added first,
then a No. 21/2 can cream corn,
salt, pepper, and then beaten egg
whites. Cook this one at 350° F,
about an hour in a pan of hot
water. This will be something of
a corn souff16, as you can see.
Other variations: add crisp ba-
con pieces, with pepper, onion,
and celery which have been sau-
teed in butter before adding to
the pudding. Pimiento is also a
corn pudding ingredient, and
sometimes bread crumbs are used
for thickening instead of flour."
Among The Nut Trees
Of Great Britain
Which are the commonest nuts
in our countryside of which we
can make good use? Hazlenuts
and the selected and improved
forms of the wild hazel, the cul-
tivated cobnuts and filberts. , . .
We meet the hazel mostly as a
bush in a hedgerow or thick gar-
den
arden hedge. When we find hazels
111 woodland and corpses, where
they grow as trees --- they
may reach a height of 10-12 1.1.
and about the arms width.
it ie not difficult to recugnixi
the hazel at any time of the year.
in ,laniary', while the tree is
leafless, lone brown catkins
hang on the Mies. They have
changed from the tiny green
stamen catkin= which have been
growing ;ince the previous suer
met — hardly visible -- between
the Loot of the leaf stalk and
the hrtinele . AB spring ,d-
' 31 ( , th, 5everitl3 01 the aped
luu'd, ns iilut . nut: first ;I is
pale zre,n. but then becomes
!.11();', bi'n 1,. ''lie -raly lutavc>
Which r..r ; :.1 flu yvump huts
1x;11 lu,nnq 11 3,, to1311 ata
'calla-ry ,nu ;n t�o'dil a: to
wit( (her the alis a; - r ohs m1 fil-
berts, They either r Irwin a ..rap n1
f•' \-F.1' the runt. . -
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grow,' 0111(1 nil ovel
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rl i'lrItIr of ,\o 4 . II _:1r31 in
darnp Bell s"ih nein to goar-
i'it14 in lort en nearly eye)
kind 00 .Foil eye; pi dry sand or
txtrtrnrly 3011 mershc ground
it c1 -u b, trued r very where in
neri,,es, n11 hunk,' rt' r'1Ve1':. Ili
bed“ .rmi, ;Hid 111 trout id her
plats F.
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nl' hazl1111113, ale; "walnut av-
um( wore 0,11.0 vr,y popular
it; n0 111,4 Elrotish garden.
en 3!111 to be found in ni
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• '1 1111 11', ,,,tri 1ip,-111
ally ;dee useful, 4aIle tit
how :t "NI t/ ---ry” can be ,tater ant
in t esrd 11 and be a thing in
beauty-, with the edded tet of
sat:Wei:tory crops, cite be found
In Miss Vita Sackville -West's gar-
den in Slssingllurst Castle, Kent.
Her mtttery, a reetan„ular
piece of ground situated neat the
herb -garden, locks Ince a sa11111
wood in a fairy tale, The five
avenues of low nut trees '-- Kent
cobs and filberts, which are now
about seventy years old --- with
their upstanding steins and their
thick ceiling of green branches,
look like a child's wood, In May
the ground is covered with that
"moet invasive weed” cclnndhte,
providing a light green carpet,
out of whiell grow very many
gay and colourful polyanthus.
As the celandine dies away cern-
pletely in summer, Miss Sack-
ville -West finds that the poly-
anthus plants do not make it
difficult to collect the nuts,
which command quite a good
price on the market when there
is a big crop. , .
Miss Sackville - West suggests
"that by far the most practical
way of growing these nuts is to
keep them down to a height of
about 6 feet, when they are quite
easy to pick off, but this involv-
es training from the word gee"—
From "Nuts: Britain's Wild Lar-
der." by Claire Loowenfelcl.
GIVEAWAY
Charged with smuggling 65
parrots from Mexico into the
U.S., dealer Robert Gebbart, re-
futed the accusation. He indig-
nantly pointed out to the judge
that it was impossible to prove
that the birds found in his 'plane
had come fro m south of the
border,
However, the accused chang-
ed his denials when a detective
spoke to the birds housed in a
room off the courtroom as the
judge and others examined the
evidence. "Buenos dias senor,"
the parrots chorused in shriek-
ing unision and in excellent
Spanish.
DOUBLE EXPOSURE — The bi-
kini goes convertible in this
new model for next year's surf
set. Sashed cuff can be rolled
down, as at left, for Riviera
bathing, or rolled up Ameri-
can style.
Nappy Ending dol•
The "Soap Operas"
It all came to it h"ppy endives.
As the last faint strains &I the
electric organ softly melted into
the background at 1:594 e,s,t,.
one afternoon recently, an era
in network radio broadcasting
spanning three decades faded in-
to the past.
But not soon to be forgotten
are dozens of daytime serial
dramas, known in the trade as
"soap operas" which entertained.
millions of housewives with
often agonizing episodes,
Ma Perkins, Young Dr. Ma-
lone, the Second Mrs. Burton,
Right to Happiness, and Whis-
pering Streets, the last of the
"soaps," bowed out graciously
with and they all lived happily
ever after" type endings.
Problems which had been de-
picted as insurmountable to fie
heroes and heroines of these,
dramatizations for decades, sud-
denly were solved and the not
infrequent pessimistic atmo-
sphere gave way in the last in-
stallment to optimism.
At one time more than three
dozen of these daytime tears and.
suds spectaculars filled the air-
ways on the three main net
works, but during the past dec-
ade
eo-ade these slow-moving pro-
grams, with their lengthy flash-
backs and unhappy charaetcrs,
began to lose their grip on the
American housewife.
They just could not meet the
competition of television with
its carnival -like daytime presen-
tations, and the super person-
ality disc jockeys whose patter
and stacks of recorded mu,,lc
now saturate but in no wise im-
prove the radio air waves.
For years the Columna
Broadcasting System refused to
give up, or was it the sponsors:
But as ratings dropped and
sponsors became harder wid
harder to find, the fate of the
soap opera was sealed, Writes
George B. Merry in the Chris-
tian Science Monitor,
Ma Perkins, oldest 1i': these
,low -moving installment dram-
as, which in 28 years and in
about 7,200 installments never
permitted the heroine, a kindly
elderly lady who operated a
number yard, to be without a
problem, may be the most leau-
ented.
But there have been other
well-known soap operas which
also will be missed. These in-
clude Stella Dallas, Young Wid-
ow Brown, Backstage Wife, Hel-
en Trent, Our Gal Sunday, and.
Pepper Young's Family. A11
have left the airways within the
past few years.
'MONEYED MUMBLER
Arresting George Normrn fee
rubbery, members of a pones
patrol car escorted him to a pol-
ice station in East St. Louis, lin
route the policemen nuestimnrd
Norman, but were puzzled by
the incnherence of his speech.
On ar'r'ival at the station they
discovered why his speech mot
difficult to understand. His
mouth was stuffed with anc-
dollar bills, port i Ids loot,
which he hr d been trying to
chew and swallow.
TH15 HAPPY DRAGON -' Dragon balloon has an anticipatory
smile on its big inflated fare, possibly because it was to be to
fcaturc of the New York thanksgiving Day parade, The balloon
ie 10 1c 1 !cog and has wings 32 feet wide, It's made of coated
ny:un ft' Ic and it filled with helium,